This is the family history of the Redfords, who originated in Prestwich, Lancashire, England. We start with Egidius Redford, who was born in the late 1500s, and trace the family all the way to the present-day Redfords. This is, however, mainly the story of Walter Redford, born in 1891, the first in the family to leave a hard life of farming and cotton mills in the "Old Country" to come to Canada in search of a new and better life for himself and his descendants. In 1911, Walter sailed across the ocean for Alberta, documenting his voyage in a journal along the way. He eventually married and settled in Victoria, British Columbia, had four children, and spent the next forty years adventuring on the ocean - in the navy in both world wars, and then as senior master in the fisheries protection service. Today his multiple descendants, as adventurous, accomplished and determined as their ancestors, can be found throughout Canada, the United States, and Australia.